Transaction Advisory Services

Transactions are multifaceted, nuanced endeavors. Friedman LLP provides the cutting-edge insights and transactional expertise needed to help you evaluate alternatives, make critical decisions, and achieve your objectives—all within tight time parameters.

Friedman’s Transaction Advisory Services professionals provide sound advice and sophisticated strategies to public and private companies, private equity firms, venture capitalists and family offices. Providing both technical and business perspectives, we help ensure your success, now and in the future.

Financial institution transactions. Our partners and staff have significant M&A, due diligence and quality of earnings analyses, deal structuring and valuation experience in addition to tax and accounting expertise. Their talent, expertise and experience will help keep you ahead of the curve and on your way to successfully completing merger, acquisition or divestiture transactions. As seasoned advisors, and former industry practitioners, our professionals are skilled at identifying and assessing latent operational, regulatory, and credit risks that may be imbedded in a potential transaction.

Extraordinary differences make for exceptional value. Ours include:

• Premier leadership. With partner-level transactional experience spanning more than four decades, our leaders are among the industry's most experienced, trusted and respected practitioners.
• A diverse palette of experience. Friedman's transaction advisory services professionals are experienced and highly trained in related consulting, accounting and tax areas, allowing us to evaluate the implications of your transaction from many sides.
• Early insights on tax and regulatory issues. Our partners play leadership roles in American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) panels and regularly testify as expert witnesses on transactional accounting and valuation issues. Through participation in this arena, they keep you ahead of the curve on business, tax and other issues impacting your transaction.
• High-touch service and care. Our partners and senior staff are actively involved in providing exceptional service and value in all phases of your transactional requirements.
• Respect for timeliness and budgets. We understand the strict time and cost pressures involved in transactions. We move quickly and with precision to meet your needs, on time and on budget.

Take the first step toward transactional success - connect with a member of the Transaction Advisory Services team, or contact us.

Friedman's Transaction Advisory Services team helps clients achieve their strategic objectives at ever stage of the business life cycle.

• Deal negotiations and structuring (financial/tax reporting)
• M&A due diligence, including Quality of Earnings reports
• Financial modeling
• Valuation services - business and intangible assets
• Fairness and solvency opinions
• Determination of economic damages for litigation support
• Transfer pricing studies
• Restructuring, insolvency and reorganization evaluation and support
• Divestiture/exit strategy evaluation
• Maximization of net operating loss realization
• Post-closing integration